I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It : Confessions of a Fiftysomething

While there are people who actually embrace getting older (although we confess not to know any) most try to deny it. Rita Rudner is no exception. When she reached 50, she couldn''t even bear to admit it: "It was more comfortable getting a laugh ... Read more

While there are people who actually embrace getting older (although we confess not to know any) most try to deny it. Rita Rudner is no exception. When she reached 50, she couldn''t even bear to admit it: "It was more comfortable getting a laugh and telling people I was filthy than having to say the word fffiffffty," she writes. In her hysterically dead-on book I Still Have It...I Just Can''t Remember Where I Put It, she relates her absurd adventures as a woman of a certain age navigating the strange and terrifyingly funny world of "near-sighted insights."

In chapters such as "Artificially Hip"; "Older Than Springtime, Younger Than Angela Lansbury"; "I Won''t Blog, Don''t Ask Me"; and "The Advantage of Vintage," Rudner tackles body issues, style, and technology, and looks at the wonders and surprises of life on the dark side of 50. So put on your bifocals and get ready to laugh. Just don’t blame Rita if your laugh lines become visibly deeper.

"Sexy deadpan is comedian Rita Rudner''s trademark style, never more in evidence than in I Still Have It ... I Just Can''t Remember Where I Put It ... Pure vaudeville, a kick at any age."—O, The Oprah Magazine Less